In the summer of 2019 when I visited my elder sister in Boston, I was a bit wary about going out alone as it was my first trip to the US. However, being a car lover, going to Auto museums was already on my list.
Now the Larz Anderson Auto Museum supposedly has the oldest car collection in America but it wasn't as popular as I'd expected. This museum was a tiny building in the middle of a lawn with not a single visitor inside. I pushed the big wooden door sweating in the bright afternoon and entered.
As I stepped inside, I heard the wooden floor creak as it was dead silent. What a sight! A big hall with rocky walls, sloping wooden roof and yellow lights was filled with beautiful, classic and extremely well maintained machines on both sides forming an Isle to the next 'era' of cars i.e. the next hall.
The first section or hall marking the era of invention of the automobile to WWI was made underground with bicycles, wagons, tractors in forgivable conditions. The post WWI era cars were displayed in the hall which was led to by the Isle and the post WWII era cars were the first that you'd see after entering. It's like you're diving deeper into history as you go through the museum. It was wonderful.
The best part was certainly the details. It's totally different than seeing these in pictures. You can sense the craftsmanship of the coachbuilders that existed then with the precision of rubbers, leathers, spotless paint jobs and glasses. Dead gorgeous. The logos, the audio recordings of the old engines, the hand drawn posters of these cars...absolutely amazing.
Just a couple more people came in throughout the day for an hour but I couldn't get enough...